Sharks of the Genus Isurus Rafinesque, 1810

Title: Sharks of the Genus Isurus Rafinesque, 1810
Title: Ichthyological Bulletin; No. 6
Creator: Smith, J.L.B. (James Leonard Brierley), 1897-1968
Subject: Mako sharks
Date Issued: 1957
Date: 1957
Type: Text
Identifier: vital:14969
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018543
Identifier: Ichthyological Bulletin; No. 6
Description: Family Isuridae - This family embraces probably not more than 6 species of large swift wide-ranging sharks of the open sea, characterised by having a conical head, the snout sharply pointed, 5 wide gill-slits, vestigial spiracle, an anal fin, the caudal lunate, its axis steeply raised, the peduncle depressed and expanded to a lateral keel, the teeth powerful, triangular or lanceolate, the third upper tooth on each side smaller than its neighbours. No nictitating membrane or fin spines.
Description: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Format: [iii], 91-96; ill; 28 cm
Format: pdf
Format: Online version of original print version of the Ichthylogical Bulletin; No. 6
Contributor: Smith, Margaret Mary (Illustrator)
Publisher: Department of Ichthyology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Language: English
Relation: Ichthyological bulletin (Rhodes University. Department of Ichthyology)
Rights: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Rights: CC BY-NC-SA : Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike

Collections

Ichthyological Bulletin

		Thumbnail	File	Description	Size	Format
View Details Download			SOURCEPDF	PDF	5 MB	Adobe Acrobat PDF	View Details Download